What About a Reductionist Approach? Comments on Terry Horgan

Is Methodological Individualism a Reductionist Approach?

A Reductionist Approach in Gene Screening

When a material is confined to one dimension, its electronic band structure can exhibit features termed van Hove singularities, which have been invoked to explain the sharp absorption spectra in materials such as single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). This model predicts a sealike photoexcited state of free electrons and holes. Recently, however, support has emerged for an exciton picture, in ...

Horgan on Sleeping Beauty

With the notable exception of David Lewis, most of those writing on the Sleeping Beauty problem have argued that 1/3 is the correct answer. Terence Horgan has provided the clearest account of why, contrary to Lewis, Beauty has evidence against the proposition that the coin comes up heads when she awakens on Monday. In this paper, I argue that Horgan’s proposal fails because it neglects importan...

Comments on "What is a tumor promoter?".

Comments on Tennant's article: What is a tumor promoter? [Editorial]. Environ Health Perspect 107:A390-A391 (1999).

What do you think about this photo? A novel approach to opinion and sentiment analysis of photo comments

We propose a practical unsupervised approach to opinion and sentiment analysis of photo comments with a real-valued strength orientation. We extract two types of opinions: opinions that relate to the photo quality and general sentiments targeted towards objects depicted on the photo. Our approach combines linguistic features for part of speech tagging, traditional statistical methods for modell...